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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1938-09-23

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1938-09-23, page 01

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPJ3R FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Vdlumc XVII—No. 248
COI.UMBU.S OHIO, M'l'li'MJll.K 2,^, 1938
II Im Warns
TRIESTE, ITALY (WNS) — How far Italy will go in carrying: out its. anti-Jewish, racist pi'o- grfim depends on thc attitude of world Jewry toward Italy, Premier Muesolihi warned in an address hefe 3n which he said "in the end the world perhaps will be more aa- tdiinded by our generosity than by our rigor, at least unless Sem¬ ites beyond the frontier nnd in our country ahd, above all, their un¬ expected friends who defend them from too. many chairs- of learning, conftpel us tb change GUI' course radically."' Heatedly denying that Italy's racisb policy was the re¬ sult of imitation of or compulsion by Germany, II Duce defended ihe pfilicy as being a ¦ consequence of the conquest-'of Ethiopia and the necessity for defending. Italian prestige there; Il Duce said the Jewish question is ''merely an as¬ pect of this phenomenon;" Oh tho othci: hand he declared that ''the world of Hebrewism has for. 16 years , been an irreconcilable enemy of Fr/:cism.'! "Jews of Ital¬ ian citizenship," he declared, "who have , unquestlonied military or civil merit in tho eyes, of Italy ' and the regime, will find justice and comprehension. As to others, a policy of separation, -will be followed.'*
¦ The text of Mussolini's remarks on racism and Jews follows:
"Regarding internal policy, the present burning question is'a'ra¬ cial one. In this field also wo shall I adopt necessary solutions. Tho^e •who try to make it believed that |
we have obeyed or imitated—or, warse, been influenced—are poor half-wits, to whom we accord our contempt and our pity. I'he racitil problem has not brokeii out sud¬ denly, hs think those who are used to brusque awakenings, be¬ cause they are used to long, slug¬ gish sleeps. It la related to the conquest of empire,, since history teaches us em^ii^es are conquered by arms but held by prestige, and prestige demands a clear-cut con- actousness of race which estab¬ lishes not' only differences but clear superiority.
"The Jewish problem is there¬ fore merely ap aspect of this phenomenon. Our position has been determined., Pespite pur policy the world of Hebrewisin has fpr sixteen years been an irrecon¬ cilable enemy of fascism. In Italy our . policy has .caused among Semitic elements ^something which, if it cart be called a course at all, may be called running foul.
¦"Nevertheless, Jews of Italian citizenship who have unquestioned military or civil merit in the eyes of Italy and the regime .will find justice and comprehension. As to others, a policy of separation,will be followed. In thc end the world: perhaps will he mcire astounded by our gfnerosity than by our rigor, at least unless Semites be¬ yond: the frontier Snd in om- country and, above all,, their un¬ expected friends who defend them from too many chairs of learning, compel us to change our course radically,"
Teaches Children To Foment Race Hatred In Schools
War Crisis May Save Jewish Army Officers
ROME <WNS)—Because of the critical European situation which
-lUiay end in war at any moment, Itedy may not ^extend its . anti- Jfewish program to the army and navy, according to reports in,mili- rtary circles. Army spokesiaen pointed out that at a recent mili¬ tary conference presided over by MuBSolini many high ranking Jew¬ ish officers including GeneralE Pugliese, Ottolenghi, ]. AscoH and Balcu were present. Despite these reports, however,. the authorities are going ahead with the execution
. cf the anti-Jewish policy. Courses in racism have been,introduced in all pilblic schools. Creation ' of a ghetto .ih the Italian North Afri¬ can colony of Libya is foreshadow¬ ed by an article in neji^spaper Popbla d'ltalia. The first mixed
Rabbis Proclaim "Pid-
yon Nefesh" Por
First Time
BUDAPEST (WNS)—A "pHyon aefesh'' (Eavine of lives) craer- Srency action, the ' second of ita Iiind in the history of Hun^rian Jewry arid the first in.more than lOOyearo, -ivas proclaimed by the Orthodox Rabbinate for the week of Seliioth, the period of peniten¬ tial prayer pi'ece41nB Eosh Hash¬ anah, -which began on the evening cf Sept. 17th. The proclamation calls upon every .Jewish family in Hungary, to contribute at least one pengoe durinp: Selicoth to provide a. fund for meeting the problems arisine from Hungary's anti-Jew¬ ish numerus claua\iB legislation. Signing the proclamation were the' . chief rabbis of Budapest, Ujeherto, Szerabaly, Egcr, Gyer, Debreczen, Mako, Chorna, Kiavarda and 128 other Orthodox .Jewish communi¬ ties. A "pidyon nefesh" was last proclaimed in Hungary in the early part of tha 1.9th century-by Rabbi Moshe Sofer when the Jews of Bratislav were threatened with expulsion.
Poland Asks League To Move Out Jews
Jewish-Christian-marriage to <and in.divorce as a result of the anti: Jewish program is reported from Florence.
WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS) —Two hundred American citizens ¦will be affcctpd ,by. the 2t^alia.n de¬ cree ordering the expulsion of all Jews who entered Italy since Janu¬ ary 1, 1919, according to an in¬ vestigation by the State Depart¬ ment.
, NEW YORK (WNS)—Artur Rubinstein, world-famous Polish Jewish pianist, has canceled a scheduled tour of Italy and has returned to Mussolini .the order of Commander of the. Italian Cross conferred upon him by II Ducfe and and an autographed photogiraph of the . Italian dictator, it was an¬ nounced here by Sol Hurek, Rub¬ instein's American manager.
GENEVA (WNS)—Appointment of a special League of Nations , Committee to tabe up the problem of evicuBting from Poland tens of thousands of PoUah Jews regarded as "surplus" as well as Jewish refugees from othew countriea now in Poland was demanded by Fo- land at a secret meeting of a League Assembly sub-committee dealing with refugeea, delegates who attended the meeting eaid. Titus Koniarniclti, Polish delegate. Is reported to have declared that Poland -was not concerned whero the Jews -m^ ^Bt so hxi^ as th&
Poland. It is said that Polish spokesmen referred to the Jews as "a restless, dissatisfied element" of- whom the government wanted to be rid..Poland laid particular stress, it is stated, on the urgency of sending the Jews to Palestine.
NEW YORK (WNS)—Children iittcnding *the camps of the Ger- nian-Amci'ican Bund are being taught how to foment racial and religious prejudice in the public schools by raising questions of race'and creed, a sub-committee of the DicH^ Committee Investiga¬ ting Un-American Activities, .was told by Roy P. Monahan, former New York State commander of the Disabled American Veterans. Mon¬ ahan quoted Theodor Dinkclacker, national -youth leader of the Bund, as saying, "qur youth are destined to carry forth our Nazi idcaH" and ."anyone- of German blood who would denounpe his German father¬ land after becomifig an American citizen would be a despicable scoundrel,"
Mojiahan also charged that Nazi groups In this country, headed by Blind leader Fritz Kuhn, whom he described as; "a potenl;ial Konrad Henlein", are engaged in a wide¬ spread, effort at espionage and subversive activities, Monahan ac¬ cused Kuhn "of being one of'the participant^. in , Hitler's Munich beer hall putsch in 1923. The vet- arans' leader also "asserted that a unit of thp Gestapo, Nazi secret police, ia functioning in the United States under the guise of a clip¬ ping and press service. Called Bunaste, the. unit is headed by Otto :Wegener. Dr. Friedhelm Drager, German vice-consul in , New York, Monahan said, is the Gestapo, .agent ..in this country, Monahan also charged that the Bund has organized units of sym¬ pathizers Who use aliases. . Victor Ridder, former WPA director In.New York and a lead¬ ing figure in German-American circles, told the committee that the Bund had not been taken seriously in Germ an-American quarters since Heinz Spanknoefael, iirsfc Ngzi loader here, fled the country in 1934. Ridder said tho Bund miRht have becoftie ft danger if Sbank- hoebelihad been permitted to con¬ tinue his activities.
EmmigratioEi Prospecis For German Jews Dim
Leg-ion To Demand
Curbs On Subversive
Activities
LOS ANGELES (WWfe)—Stiln- gcnt legislative measures to (leal with Fascist, Communist, .Nazi and other subversive propaganda and activities in the United States I will b,e recommended by the Ameri¬ can Legion, which is holding its annual convention here, on tiie basis of proposals to be advanced by the Americanism Commission headed by Stephen P. Chadwick, who will be elected national com¬ mander. Daniel Doherty, retiring commander, told the convention in his annual report that the Legion's Americanism Commission's activi¬ ties are "of greater 'import now than at any time in the history Of. the Legion. Subversive groups have increased tremendously. America has been . flooded with propaganda. Advantage has been ! taken of the ti-ying conditions un¬ der which our country has been laboring."
J. Edgar Hoover, head G-man, told the convention, that ''both Communism and Fascism are the antithesis of American belief in liberty and democracy. "I'here can be no .room in this country for thesa destructive, anarchic or des-' potic cults." They are, he said, "two twin horrid, spectral growths of an alien soil and an alien spirit." The report of the Americanism Commission recommeiided a 90% rcductioii in immigration quotas and'voiced opposition to any bill which would make the United
States "a dumping ground" for all L ...„ ,—
Boljtjea!, ia«|»l imd class refugees.' now. ?8.00 pei: year,
BERLIN (WN S)—Emigration pio.spccts for Jews in Germany have bccomo extremely discourflgr ing since July 1938 because of the lapsing of thc Altrcu transfer scheme under which the emigra¬ tion of poor Jews was financed through a plan whereby the Ger¬ man government rcleo.^cd 1,500,000 marks in foreign exchange for 3,000,000 marks collected, the Hllfsvcrcin der' Judcn in Peutsch- land reports. The parallel closing of immigration gates by mony countries was: another factor in slowing down emigration. In the first six months of 1038 there was a '20% increase in Jewish emigra¬ tion as compared with n similar period in 11)37 but this trend has now been reversed, the Hilfsvcrcin states. Meanwhile; the Juedisehe Kundschau appeals to the United States to increase tho immigration quo'ta for Germany to 100,000 a year for the next two years at a means of speeding up Jewish emi- gialion without increasing the to¬ tal number that would he admit¬ ted over n longer period of time.
BUDAPEST (WNS)—After more than four months of living aboard a; tugboat anchored. In the Danube River, the Jewish refugees from Burgenland, Austria, have at last succeeded in obtaining per¬ mission from the Hungarian au¬ thorities to land provided they re¬ turn to the vessel every night. Meanwhile, 22 of the refugees have left for Palestine where they are due to arrive on the first day of .Rosh. Hashanah.
Nl^W YORK (IVNS)—The num¬ ber of German and Austrian refu¬ gees who .have registered in the city's free public evening elemen¬ tary schools has passed tho 1,000 mark, inore than triple the figure for 1937, it was announced by Mor¬ ris E. Sicgcl, director pf evening and continuation schools. To meet the', increase, additional classes will be. opened, Siegel said. Last year 16 classes were opened.
He Will Be Heard In
Nationwide Sunday
Broadcast.
Tcr Ye.ir $3.00; Per Copy lOc
Dr. Stephen S. >Visc
The Jewish New Year (Bosh Hashanah), which is to begin tliis Sunday evening, Sept. 25th, will be ushered in on that day by a special broadcast over.a. nation^, wide hookup 'of the Columbia Broadcasting System in which Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Chairman of th^ Executive Committee of the United Palestine Appeal> will be the principal speaker.
Madame Goeta Ljunberg, noted soprano, formerly of the Metro;- politan Opera Coriipany, will be the featured- artist.
The High Holiday broadcast, which is to be presented under tha auspices ot the United Palestine Appeal, will be heard over Station WABCinNew.Yorkand other sta¬ tions of the' Columbia chain throughout the country on Sunday afternoon, September 25th from 4 to 4:30 P. M.
In addition to Madame Ljun- berg's appearance on the program the broadcast will also include ritual music by the choir of .tlii; Free Synagogue under the direc¬ tion of, Erofesaor A. "^r gimlei^.
During the course of ¦hts'^i dress Dr. Wise is expected to view developments in the past year in Jewish lifethroughoiit tie World and dwell on,thesignificDtice of the rebuilding of Palestine as a major force in the solutioS of the problem of Jewish'suffering in various parts of .the, world.
The United'Palestine Appeal i-'' now conducting a nationwide cam¬ paign to rai.w ?4,50O,00O for tlie settlement in Palestine of Jews of Germany, Austria, Poland, and other lands.
N.P.T.S. To Broadcast New Year Services
Rnbbi Louis I. EgoLion of thc Union of American Hebrew Con- IcrfEatiim will road the New Year services and Dr. Julian Morgen- 'tcrn, Pi-Riident of the Hebrew Union Colk'sro, will deliver . the Day ol AlonemcilfritunT over thc High Ilolyiiay Services broadcast sponsored liy the National Ferier- alion.of Temple Sisterhoods.
On both days, Monday, Sept. 20 antl Woiincaday, Oct. 5, the brond- rast will be heard over WLW from 10:00 lo lOi-IO A. M. The half hour following, the a.ime services will ho repeated over the coast- to-coast chain of the Mutuojl Broadcasting System.
The tvadilional response will he sung by a splendidly trained choir ivith excepLional soloists.
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100,000 Foreign And Stateless Jews May Be Expelled
BERLIN" (WNSp-'Thousniids nf stateless and East European Jews resident ,in Germany will become subject'to expulsion within foui weeks after October 1st when a new law requiring all foreignijis in the Keich to register with Xha police every three months, comes Into force. The expectation is that after October 1st there will bp started arf organized campaign of .ejcpul^on against such Jews. Jew¬ ish qvajrters report, tl?at there ore in Germany 80,000 Polish, 7,000 .Rumanian and 17,000 stateless Jews, The latter group is increas¬ ing . daily because of the action of. the Rumaiiian and Polish gov¬ ernments in denaturalizing- their Jewish citizens and the German c a m p a i gn of denaturalizattou against German Jews. Already the number of expulsion notices served on Jews averages 50 daily. This figure ia expected to increase greatly after October 1st.
Nearly one-fifth of all the Jews in Greater' Germany (including Austria) wiil be deprived of their livelihood on October 1st when a ney decree banning Jewish sales agents and commercial travellers comes into effect it was revealed in an official estimate that 110,000 Jews will be thrown out of work. This figure Is much higher thaa Jewish estimates"^^ because it In¬ cludes Jews who hold sales license:: as. a sideline to other businesses.
Tarshish In Book Review
Rabbi Jacob Tarshish will review the Pulitzer Prize play "Our Town" hy Thornton Wilder, on Monday, Oct. 17, at 8 o'clock, at Central High, School- auditorium, for the benefit of The Children's Hospital, sponsored by Twig No. 15. Ticketa at 76e may be had hy calling Mrs. C. J, Hifiki^r, BV, m^-
Local Men To Attend Regional Welfare Conference Oct« 22-23
Dr. C.*W. Efroymson of Indian- iipoli-s Chairmon of the East Cent¬ ral States Regional Conftirence oC the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, announcer, the holding of the fifth annual meeting of this.regional body at Louisville, Ky., at the Kentucky Hotel on Oct.' 22nd and 23rd.
This conference is the outgrowth of a meeting held in. Columbus five years ago at which prominent lay lei'.ders, from Ohio, Kentucky, In- liiana, Michigan, western Pennsyl¬ vania, and West Virginiaj met to discuss problems of current Jew¬ ish concern. The interest in this meeting,was so pronounced that n permanent informal conference committee was arranged to-plan annual meetings
This, year's Conference coming at a time when world ' Jewish events are a ^matter of immediate local cohcerii shoiild be of interest to lay and professional leaderti -'j-^tl-fcommunlties in tbe dls-
Bict. --
J The Confeience will begm with fit dinner on Saturday evening ut which speakers of national prom¬ inence will address the group oa world events in their relationship to Jews and Jewiah action and their effect on local communities.
The Conference will continue Sunday .morning at 9 o'clock with a series of clinical m^'etuigs to be pai-ticipated in by those attending the meeting. Programs of .Jewish education on a community-wide basis will ba the theme of one meeting., A second one will con¬ cem itself with piograms and plans for meeting problems of Jewish^ employment. Included are such questions as: What, occupa¬ tions should Jewish y.oiith turn to? What are the mechanics of job htinting? How can attitudes of Jewish, youth he, conditioned to,ac¬ ceptance of new occupational pos¬ sibilities, etc.
A speaker will address the noon luncheon meeting on the .subject of what organizations are included in the scope of welfare fund.s and what organizations ^should, be in¬ cluded. The conference will close after a clinic devoted to the prob¬ lems of refugee!..
Mr, Charles W. Morris of Louis- yiUe, Kentucky, is Chairman of the host city. ¦
Dr. B. J. Gordon of Columbus, Vice-Chairman of the region, will preside, at one of the meetings. Mv* E. J. Shanfarber and Julius Steinhauser'are members of the Regional Executive and Program Committee.
TJ^ese meetings ate open to all interested members of the Jewish community. Complete programs Will be available within two weeks:
Over 500 Attended
Van Paassen Lecture
Over 500 perBons, among whom were many non-Jews, were electri¬ fied and amazed as • Pierre Van Faasaen presented a word picture of.the present world crisis and des¬ cribed the plight of the Jpws in Europe here last Sunday evening-
Immediately following the lec¬ ture, Dr. Don Shusterman an¬ nounced that the speaker of the «ext meeting of the Broad 'St.' Temple Men's Club would be an outstanding radio Commentator. This will he a stag affair for mem¬ bers only. By joining the club now, you will ba eligible to attend and participate in the events for the owsuinu year. Watch the Chronicle Uf jfutther detaila;
Synagogues To Herald Approach Of New Year Sunday Eve
Synagogues and Temples will he filled with. worshippers thia Sun¬ day evening, Sept. 2fi, to herald the approach of the Jewish New Yt-ar, orRosh Hashanah..To cele¬ brate this solemn holiday, upecinl services will be held for one day in Heforni Temples and in Ortho¬ dox Synagogues for two days.
The blowing of the ram's horn in synagogues ' throughout the world will call adherents of Juda¬ ism to reflection and repentance. Rosh Hashanah litei'ally means "the beginnipg of the year" and this year the holyday ushers iu the year 5699, anno mundi.
In. ancient times this festival marked the begiiming of the agri¬ cultural and economic year in Palestine. With the de-itruction of tho tehiple in Jerusalem and the digpcrsion of the people, the holy- day began to mean -a time of prayer and meditation, of self- scrutiny, and of peiiiitence. This interprttation of the holiday epmea from the rabbinical tradition thai the New Year connnemorates tlie anniversary of creation, the day upon which all people o^ the world are conceived .as passing in review before their Creator for judgment.
The prayers, of the day are filled with the-message of justice. The soundof the Shofar calls,for re¬ membrance of God's laws and one's X)bligations to his fellow-men.
Rosh Hashanah is a day on which family ties are strengthened arid friendships are renewed. En- cpmpassing the ideas of. divioo justice and.human .respoiisibility, the day hegiiis "The Ten Days of Penitence" which culminate iU Yoni Kippur, or the Day of Atone¬ ment. Duiing this peiiod, Jew.s aie given the opportunity to reflect on the pistyear and to repent of Wrong, done. If the repentance is iiincere, foreisJenesa is attained on Yom Kippur,.the solemn festival of (CotiVmmd oit page 2)
Jewish Education
Month Begins Sept. 25th
NEW YORK (W N S)— T he period from September' 26th - .to October 25th has been. set aside as national Jewish education month during ¦ which time the National Council for Jewish Edu¬ cation will endeavor to focus the attention of Jewish parents on the importance of providing their chil¬ dren with Jewish religious ; train¬ ing . in addition to their secular training. The moiith will be util¬ ized for enrolling cliildreii In Je.w- ish religious schools. The campaign will be .climaxed by a Jewish edu¬ cation week from October 18tU to 25th, during, which appeals will be made to parents in every commu¬ nity through, tbe press, radio, special literature and posters, The campaign for Jewish education month, is an annual feature of the program of.the National Council for Jewish Education of which Dr, Samuel Dinin is president, is directed by a committee beaded by Dr. Azriel Ei.senherg, director of thc Ijureau of Jewish cducatioji of Cincinnati..Cooperating In the pro¬ gram is the Jewish Welfare Board, whose educational department, headed by Dr. Mordecai Soltea, a member of the Jewish ediication month committee, has addressed a letter to its constituent societies urging them to cooperate with Jewish education bureaus In their communities for the observance of Jewish education month and week and to take the initiative for the observance of the occasions in com- muhlties where no central Jewish educational agency exists.
Nazis Call Jewish Doc¬ tors For War Service
BERLIN (WNS)-~Prescribed in time of peace, Jewish doctors in Germany have suddenly become valuable assets to the Nazi regime a{i war looms. Hundreds of import¬ ant Jewish physicians who were among the 7,000 Jewish doctors forbidden to practice by a decree issued August 2nd, have received orders to report to designated military units when and if mobili¬ zation begins. All Jewish physi¬ cians receiving sucli instructions had previously been denied permis¬ sion to leave the country under any circumstances.
Horris Tropar KalinisM
ue@ads Birnaril 'wll ill Eur@p@
NJOW YORK (WNS)—Morris C. Troper, prominent New Yorlt ac- countiiiit nnd for liiany yoara nn netive loader in' tlie affairs of the Joint Di-striljution Cummitieo, 1)G- cunie director of ull J.D.C. work in Europe when the organization's executive committee liariied him to the chaiiinan.Hhlil of the Europeao executive council of J.U.C. to auc- ceed Dr. Bernard Kuhn, who Was at the .same time elevated'to the new ])ost of honorary chairniuti of the council. Ill a joint atfltcment hy Paul Baerwald, chairman o£ J.D.C. and James N. Ho.senberg, vice- cliainnan, it was explained that the iiew office was created in order to enatiile Dr. Kahn to spe^id most of hi.s time in the United States where his flr.^t hand knowledge of the Jewish' situation abroad. would be available to the J.D.C. leaders in making, "many decisions .which must be constantly initiated t>n this .lide." ,Dr. Kjihri ha» been head of the. J.'D.C.'s European office since 1924.. Mr. Troper, who has, niade many trips abroad for J.D.C, lias worked in the. fleld^ in Poland, Rumania, Russia, Latvia,' Geriiiiiny and Austria. He is antl for the past three years has been executive vice-chairniuii. of tiie Greater New York Campaign of. the J.D.C. Mr. Troper and-Dr. Kahn will sail for Paris, where J.D.C.'a Kuropean headquaiters are, within a month, and shortly tliereatteV, Dr. Kahn will, return here to assume liis new duties.
Meeting hr conjunction, with .the executive committee ' was JDC's board of directors and its natioiial canipaign'plaii aiid scope commit¬ tee. At the former nweting Edward M. M. Warburer, aoii of the late Felix M. Warburg, was elected vice-chairman of tlie JDC and a jnember of the.board of directors The animal JDC repoit for 1»37 presented to the hoard contai|»d a ilieanovial chapter dedieatfd to Pelix Ai. Warbufg and tracing the history of the oiganization and Mr. Waibuig's contiibution toward its, development.
Prominent Sp^jiLera
Tlie ineeting of tli^. plan . and scope conmiittee was oddieiaed by Goveviior Herbert H. -Leiiman, James G; iMcDonald, chairinfUn Of President Roosevelt's advisory com- niitiee bn refugees; Dr. Joseph P. Chamberlain, chairman of the Na¬ tional ' Coordinating Committee^ Mr. Baerwald; Rabbi Jopah B. Wise,' national chairman of the JDC cainpaiffu cuinniHtee;'Joseph C. llyniaii, executive director, of JDC; Isidor Coons, national direc¬ tor of the JDC canipaign; and Hiirold K. Guinzbeigi raeinber of the board qf directors who attend¬ ed thp Eyian Conference with Dr. Wise. The following eight new members were elected to the plan and scope committee; Abner Breg- man of New York, William Frank of Pittsburgh, Bernhard E. Hoff¬ man of New Haveii, £lias G. Krupp of El Paso, Joseph P. Loeb of Los Angelas, Maurice J. Kellner of Springfield, 111.; Ben .Sadowski of Toronto, H. II. Weinberg of Sym- cuse and Edward M. M.: Warburg of New York.
Rabbi Wise and &(''• Coons re¬ ported that $2,7!i9,322 had been raised during the spring phase of the 1938 campaign. They stated that niore was raised hi: the first half of the current drive than in the entire year of li)36 and that the figures exceeded the first half year total for 1937 by $419,000, There were 1,323 conimunities and districts in the United States and Canada that participated in the spring phase, of the cfimpalgri. as compared with 982 for the same period in 1937. A Considerable in¬ crease ' in voluntary contributions from Christmas waa noted in the report.
Governor Lehman told the meet¬ ing that American Jewry had rea¬ son to be proud of the United .States not only because it em¬ bodied the democratic ideal but "because it was responsible this year for setting a historic preced¬ ent in the annals of humanitarian¬ ism." Praising the Evian Confer¬ ence for having "focused thc at¬ tention of onr best minds—Chris¬ tian as well as Jewish—on the problem of refugees," the. Gover¬ nor aaid "we dare not fail our co¬ religionists abroad, who look to ua as their primary hope. Vyhat Is more; wa must demonstrate to our fellow citizena of the United States not only our appreciation of thej
b'lmnni'r.nnii piinciph'*^ which oult guvcninifnt h.i<! enunciated, bnt our readiness' to do our share in incetnif; a pioblrm which affect*; u*^ no deeply."
Tflsne Statement
The text of tlie «tatcm«nt of JDt"s policy comtnittee on the a^- J ointment of Mr. Tiopfr nnd Di^, Knhn follows:
"The Executive Committee ¦will recall our moisting of April 2ftth *t which it was decided that in thHft critical times it has become necel- aaify tlMtt •n» b* eioaer to th« European <cone; nnd that this could best be acrompltuhed by having Dr. Bernhard Knhn, chair¬ man of our European Council, on this side of the wator, thorehy giving OS tbe benefit at first hand of his wide knowledge to aid uR in making the many deciiionft which must constantly be initiated on , this side. This had been 'dis¬ cussed with Dr. Knhn in New Yorfc last wintei. Thc threat nf AuBtrian developments and the increaninsr complexity of our problemR werfe only too plain. With theeo snd other considerations before n«, and having the hearty approval ol Dr. Kahn, it was ni that meeting de- .cided tliat Dr. Kahn ahould be fiend ot the exacting administra¬ tive duties which ohairmanahip of tlie European JDC Council entails so ae to have him here with uK niODt of the time, 'fhls decision re- qnired us alxo to find a new chaiT- mon ot the Euroj^an JBC Coan¬ cil. To carry out these important ateps, the Executive Commltteei Created a Policy Commltfeo of which I was appointed chairman; Mr. Baei wald serving with me. The importance of the poat of Euro¬ pean Chairman js well known to you. So also ia tiie fact that this position hfis long been held and its complex tusks performed with gieat skill an'd 'devotion by Df. Kahn. Nalulally, Mi-.-BacrwaM-fttKi y I gave much thought to thia mat-"^' ter, regarding it as partiVulariy important that the even, steady flow of our woik niuat continue. Finally wo decided that tho man best equipped for this lesponsihlo post was our good friend, Mou*is 0. Troper, with whom we.havo all worked shoulder to shoulder for the last twenty yearn; Wo privately informed the officers of the JDC M to our views. They enthusias¬ tically approved our choice.
"Mr. Troper needs no introduc¬ tion. His effective participation in JDC affairs is known to youj He has made over a dozen- extended visits- to, Europe for work,of the JDC, foundation, the Agro-Joint, the American Hociety for Jewish Farm Settliinents in Russia'. Ho has not been merely our auditor, but a wi.^e, experienced advisor, alert to our: problems and with thorough understanding of our work, our policies, our aims. He has worked ilithe field in Poland, Russia, Latvia, Rumania, Germany, Austria, etc. For years he has been tlie problems with his own eyes. Ho has met and knows niiany 6£ the Jewiah leaders both here and abroad.'A» executive Vice-Chair- nmn of our Greater New York » Campaigns, he has come into con- toct with . American givers and leadei s and their points of view, Ilis money raising activity has been so successful that but for tho impuitanco of the European task we would have been loath to spare him to go abroad. We know what a sacrifice we would bo asking him to make. • Hia prestige as a Certified Public Accountant is known to you. Only lately he has been re-elected to the distinguished office of President cf the New Yorfc State Society of Certified Public Accountants; he is also phaiimon of the Advisory Council oif the Stat^ CPA Society Presi¬ dents of the entire United States. His reputation in his profession it* national: Above all this, he is .a man whom we love. Nobody can help getting along with him. He has not only proved executive ability hut also has the invaluable gift of making friends, of inspir¬ ing confidence and affection whcre- ever he goes. Wlien we spoke to him and told hira that the plan was in harmony with Er. Kohn's viewii, he at once expressed his disposi¬ tion to meet our wishes. After consultation with hia good wife— formerly a valuable JDC worker— and also with his partner, Simon Loeb, lie MH to us, and I think (ConiiHu^d on pags i)
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